If Find My Mac is dimmed and you see 'Recovery system update required'

If you go to the iCloud menu and Find My Mac is dimmed with "Recovery system update required" below it, we can help.

Follow these steps

Click Update next to Find My Mac and open the Software Update menu. You might see a message to install a macOS recovery update, or a message that says your software is up to date.

If you install the update and Find My Mac is still dimmed in the iCloud menu, follow these steps:

Restart your Mac and immediately press the Command and R keys. Your Mac should start from the macOS recovery partition.

Open Disk Utility and click your macOS volume, typically named Macintosh HD. If FileVault 2 is enabled, you'll need to click Unlock on the toolbar, and then enter your admin password to unlock the drive.

Click the Repair Disk button and let Disk Utility complete a repair of the drive.

If you can't complete a repair of the drive

Open Disk Utility on the external macOS Recovery Disk and then click your macOS volume, typically called Macintosh HD. If FileVault 2 is enabled, you'll need to click Unlock on the toolbar, and then enter your admin password to unlock the drive.

Click the Repair Disk and let Disk Utility complete a repair of the drive.

If you can't complete a repair of the drive while started from an external macOS Recovery Disk